1-across – Diagonally-moving chess piece : BISHOP

4-across – Aussies’ airline : QANTAS

8-across – ___ apso : LHASA

9-across – Word before ‘plaster’ or ‘pack’ – or,with a hyphen,one less famous than a 5d : BLISTER

10-across – Periodic pecuniary allowance : STIPEND

11-across – Number of stumps in a wicket : THREE

12-across – She’s in charge : MATRIARCH

17-across – Old saying or proverb : ADAGE

19-across – Alexandra Feodorovna,e.g. : TSARINA

21-across – Inhabitant of Tehran,e.g. : IRANIAN

22-across – Type of wheat in a health food shop : SPELT

23-across – Papua New ___ : GUINEA

24-across – ‘Et tu’ emperor : CAESAR

1-down – Displaying a lot of nerve : BALLSY

2-down – e.g. Arsenal’s Emirates : STADIUM

3-down – Speechify : ORATE

5-down – One in celebrity’s top tier : ALISTER

6-down – One giving private lessons : TUTOR

7-down – Shrill cry : SHRIEK

9-down – Racket sport : BADMINTON

13-down – We / their : THEWIRE

14-down – She rise : HEIRESS

15-down – ___ to go : RARING

16-down – Trade by exchange : BARTER

18-down – Expensive violin or cello : AMATI

20-down – Lost – in the Black,perhaps! : ATSEA

5-across – One purporting to see the future : CLAIRVOYANT

7-across – Inhabitant of Copenhagen,e.g. : DANE

8-across – Raspberry ripple,e.g. : ICECREAM

9-across – Dash to pieces : SHATTER

11-across – One was named for Edmund Halley : COMET

13-across – Sidle – tell-tale : SNEAK

14-across – Rowing fellow : OARSMAN

16-across – ‘Clunk click’ car-user’s safety device : SEATBELT

17-across – Canal in the news in 1956 : SUEZ

18-across – e.g. sirloin,Yorkshire puddings,spuds etc : SUNDAYROAST

1-down – Title awarded to Maggie Smith : DAME

2-down – Rue ribs : BRUISER

3-down – <span>Nickname of </span><i>Casablanca</i><span>’s Humphrey</span> : BOGEY

4-down – Process ending in baldness? : HAIRLOSS

5-down – They keep your clothes in shape : COATHANGERS

6-down – Once-common consultee regarding holidays : TRAVELAGENT

10-down – Browning – honouring : TOASTING

12-down – Oriental : EASTERN

15-down – Painter of many a ballet dancer : DEGAS

17-down – Sewn junction : SEAM

1-across – Awry – like a Conference? : PEARSHAPED

7-across – Hare hunter – bird of prey – jump jet : HARRIER

8-across – Perfect happiness : BLISS

10-across – Great,gray or eared : SEAL

11-across – Abstemious : TEETOTAL

13-across – Game with hooked sticks and hard ball : HOCKEY

15-across – Form a unified hole : COHERE

17-across – Get out of here! : RUNFORIT

18-across – Breathe with short quick breaths : PANT

21-across – A swim : SWAMI

22-across – John Lennon 1980 number one : IMAGINE

23-across – Spins,rises : PRISSINESS

1-down – Hooded waterproof coat or jacket : PARKA

2-down – Somewhat : ABIT

3-down – Easier : SERIEA

4-down – Fundamentally : ATBOTTOM

5-down – Let’s pie : EPISTLE

6-down – P : PHOSPHORUS

9-down – Dignity : SELFESTEEM

12-down – Exercise system designed to increase amount of oxygen in blood : AEROBICS

14-down – Human-horse hybrid : CENTAUR

16-down – Two-piece beachwear : BIKINI

19-down – ‘___,amigo!’ : ADIOS

20-down – Internet,transport or cat? : CAFE

1-across – Freedom of action : CARTEBLANCHE

9-across – Urban’s opposite : RURAL

10-across – Adolescent : TEENAGE

11-across – In excited eagerness : AGOG

12-across – Without a care in the world : BLITHELY

14-across – <i>Le chef</i><span> : FLECHE

15-across – Looted : TOLEDO

18-across – Elevation at the coast : SEALEVEL

20-across – Remove,as a hat : DOFF

22-across – Form of Satan – treacherous type : SERPENT

23-across – Amazon ___ : PRIME

24-across – Surpassing all others : TRANSCENDENT

2-down – Aperture in a cat box,perhaps : AIRHOLE

3-down – Ring out – bridge fee : TOLL

4-down – Spirit – container for spirits : BOTTLE

5-down – Computer screen warning : ALERTBOX

6-down – Abrade : CHAFE

7-down – Now and then : EVERYSOOFTEN

8-down – Eggcups,toast rack etc? : BREAKFASTSET

13-down – Bare-footed : SHOELESS

16-down – e.g. David Cameron or James Bond : ETONIAN

17-down – Colorado,May or stag : BEETLE

19-down – It carries blood from the heart : AORTA

21-down – Apple tablet : IPAD

1-across – Gnasher string : DENTALFLOSS

9-across – ___ sale : CLEARANCE

10-across – Raw underground material : ORE

11-across – Garlicky dip : AIOLI

13-across – Novelist Flannery or singer Sinéad : OCONNOR

14-across – Second most popular web browser : SAFARI

15-across – Systematize : CODIFY

18-across – Most common coffee bean : ARABICA

20-across – Dance or dip : SALSA

21-across – Number of humps on a dromedary : ONE

22-across – Vodka,cranberry and grapefruit juice : SEABREEZE

24-across – Item in a tailor’s kit : TAPEMEASURE

2-down – Sensory organ of the head : EYE

3-down – Airedale,Skye or Yorkshire : TERRIER

4-down – Pride,gin or Eye : LONDON

5-down – Deceive : LIETO

6-down – Wading bird – cutlery cost? : SPOONBILL

7-down – Principle of economy : OCCAMSRAZOR

8-down – St Peter locale : PEARLYGATES

12-down – Not captured by the lens : OFFCAMERA

16-down – In a way : OFSORTS

17-down – Japanese for ‘empty hand’ : KARATE

19-down – Emanate : ISSUE

23-down – Sensory organ of the head : EAR